History

“Left flanking or straight up the middle with bags of smoke?!”

Not another Armistice Day to get through. And what about all the other pressing issues for which there is no poppy?

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Dickens derailed

Tom Chesshyre recounts Dickens’s troubled history with trains

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Hail to the Chief (Part V)

Graham Stewart talks to Prof Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the end of the Cold War

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History wars roll on

In Britain, contentious historical issues receive attention to an unprecedented degree

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Keep buggering on

We could do worse than adopt the twin maxims of the western world’s two wartime leaders

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Stephen Cohen: historian, polemicist and friend of Gorbachev

Cohen was a prophet of America’s decline

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Hail to the Chief (Part IV)

Graham Stewart talks to Jeremy Black about how the power of the US president has been exercised since the Second World War.

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The dictionary of the demagogues

In the dictionary of the demagogues there is only a single word: obey

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Goodbye to the Gorgoneion

Can we invent myths or are they what make us what we are?

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Past imperfectionists

The extremism of the project against our traditional idea of the museum is on full display at the Pitt Rivers

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